Earth Day Every Day! - Cold Critters: How Animals Survive in the Winter

Do you ever wonder what happens in nature when the seasons change? Some animals are better adapted for cold weather than others. Join us as we learn the tactics different animals use when the temperature starts to drop as well as ways to help our wild neighbors adjust from biologist and Master Naturalist Sam Kieschnick.

Sam Kieschnick is an urban wildlife biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD) serving the east side of the DFW metroplex. He previously worked as a nature educator with the City of Mansfield at Oliver Nature Park, as a naturalist at the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, as a science interpreter with the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, as a botanist with The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), and as an instructor at Weatherford College. He has a master’s degree from Tarleton State University where his studies focused in part on the genetics of pocket gophers.

Earth Day Every Day is a series of online environmental education sessions continuing with the Earth Day theme and bringing expert speakers, special program topics, and a reminder that every day is Earth Day. Presented by Dallas Environmental Quality and Sustainability (DEQS; Green Dallas). These topics empower Dallas residents to make sustainable choices that improve the quality of life for everyone in Dallas and the world.

This program is available online only, through Zoom. Registration is required. Zoom information will be emailed the day of the program. Emails may go to your spam folder.